06/12/2025

I know that I am but one of billions of human beings who have been and are aware of the reality of their own being but incapable of holding onto the insight that is the awareness of the BEING of "Our "Father".

My mind has developed from my experience of living in time and the teaching of the scriptures a coherent narrative to which I try to bear witness in these my responses to WORD contained in the liturgy of the worshipping community founded on St. Peter.

We all are free beings who to various degrees have been trapped in the circumstances of the reality of time and place into which we have been born. The first and last limit common to all of is  that of our bodies. None of us can escape this reality. The dying and the new-born are equally helpless in that neither can refuse to accept what is happening to them.

My soul experiences the bodily life that is " of this world" together with the self-awareness that is "image and likeness" of  "Our Father" who is unseen, self-revealing eternal life, IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

In the first reading Isaiah is sure that it is God who "inflicts the blow" which  breaks his people. 

The Incarnation, however, reveals that we cannot imagine how great is the Creating Love that chose to create mankind in his own image and likeness for the petty disobedience of Adam and Eve breaks human perfection and requires Calvary, the limitless pain of God for it to become capable of rectification.

As we grow and decline towards our final ends we all can choose how to live in whatever circumstances in which we find ourselves but there is always guidance to show us the light of ETERNAL TRUTH. 

It was individual human beings  who cooperated to construct and make use of the ovens of all the Death Camps that disfigured "Christian" Europe during the first four years of my life, just as the "Manifest Destiny" of the "Land of the Free" was achieved by the human "ethnic cleansing" of a whole "New World".

The Incarnation, Jesus, teaches us that it is not Our Father who inflicts suffering on mankind but as he stretches out his arms he accepts the incredible pain of the nails which each one of us hammers into him with  Infinite Mercy that prays for the forgiveness of the Father to be given to us for we can never truly know what harm is done by sin for even when we are aware of God for "there is always something greater here".